Regulatory Framework for Space Activities: the Analysis of the Main Regulatory Acts

• Author: Olexiy Drozd
• Position: Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, National Academy of Internal Affairs (Kyiv, Ukraine)
• Pages: 18-29

Advanced Space Law, Volume 3, 2019

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Regulatory Framework for Space Activities:

the Analysis of the Main Regulatory Acts

Olexiy Drozd1

Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, National Academy of Internal Aairs

(Kyiv, Ukraine)

E-mail: alex0674682444@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4514-6594

The article is devoted to the legal regulation of space activities in Ukraine. It has been claried that

this type of activities is regulated by a number of laws of Ukraine, decrees of the President of Ukraine,

resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, acts of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, as well

as by multilateral international treaties, international agreements within the CIS, and a large number

of bilateral treaties concluded between Ukraine and other States of the world. The basic legal acts of

Ukraine concerning implementation of space activities have been analyzed, namely: the Constitution of

Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine “On Space Activities”, the Law of Ukraine “On Entrepreneurship”, the

Law of Ukraine “On State Support to Space Activities”, “On Approval of the Concept of the National

Target Scientic and Technical Space Program of Ukraine for 2018 — 2022”, etc. The main provisions of

these acts, as well as the problematic issues that need to be claried and revised, have been considered.

The conclusions indicated that an extensive system of regulatory acts, governing the implementation of

space activities, demonstrates the transformation of the space industry into one of the leading sectors of

the Ukrainian economy. It has been emphasized that many problems of the space industry still remain

unresolved. The mentioned problems have been analyzed and the ways of their solution have been oered.

Keywords: regulatory framework, space activities, space law, regulatory acts

Received: December 27, 2018; accepted: February 01, 2019

Advanced Space Law, Volume 3, 2019: 18-29.

https://doi.org/10.29202/asl/2019/3/2

Intoduction

Space law is a set of international legal principles and norms governing relations between

States and with international organizations in connection with the exploration and use of outer

space, which determine international legal status of space, including celestial bodies. It is one

of the newest branches of international law.

The formation and development of space law began after the rst successes in space

exploration. Thus, on October 04, 1957, Soviet scientists launched into space the rst articial

© Drozd, Olexiy, 2019